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Capec-617 Detail

Cellular Rogue Base Station

Detailed Communications Hardware Typical Severity: Low

Parents: 616

Description

In this attack scenario, the attacker imitates a cellular base station with their own "rogue" base station equipment. Since cellular devices connect to whatever station has the strongest signal, the attacker can easily convince a targeted cellular device (e.g. the retransmission device) to talk to the rogue base station.

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External ID Source Link Description
CAPEC-617 capec https://capec.mitre.org/data/definitions/617.html

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Low
This technique has been demonstrated by amateur hackers and commercial tools and open source projects are available to automate the attack.
Confidentiality
Read Data (Intercept and control cellular data communications to/from mobile device.)

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